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right believer. Vasunandi in his Śrāvakācāra says that in addition to belief in seven predicaments, samyagdarśana includes belief in liberated soul and Jaina scriptures.' rightly Criterion of Right faith according to Jainism is the manifestation of the following characteristics: calmness or tranquility (praśaina), disgust at the worldly activities and aspirations after freedom (samvega), absence of hankering (nirveda), compassion (anukampā) and belief in life here after and the existence of soul, Karman etc. (āstikya).
The Tattvārthasūtra speaks of following five transgressions of samyagdarśana
(i) Sarikā (doubt) (i) Ākānksā (desire) (ii) Vicikitsă (repulsion) (iv) Anyadrstiprasaṁsā (Admiration of followers of other
creeds) (v) Anyadrstisamstava (praise of followers of other
creeds).?" The fourth transgression differs from the fifth in as much as the former means secretly thinking admiringly of wrong believers, whereas the latter means announcing the praise of wrong believers loudly."
The existence of the jewel of right faith, although extremely subtle, owing to being a condition of soul, may be inferred from these qualities. Right faith is the starting point of the life of a Srāvaka. The Ācārānga Sūtra brings out the moral significance of right faith with great emphasis when it says, "He who right fait commits no sin.”!? The discipline to be observed by him is based on the right view if things in the absence of which the discipline becomes only a formal practice without any meaning or content. Faith may differ from religion
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